Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"

It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."

For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;

When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately the leprosy left him.

But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

He commanded him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."

Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"

Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house."

He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?'

Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."

He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."

He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch."

and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive."

Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"

No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."